Tonight in Tucson the president's strength, compassion and wisdom reminded us all of what we first saw in him, what can get lost in the day-to-day legislative sausage-making. More gray-haired and somber, he brilliantly and so presidentially rose above the clutter, the chatter. I keep thinking about his oft-repeated line, "our better angels," and today he inspired us all, on all sides, to really hear those words.
He preached tonight, a lay Christian minister. I can't but hope that the vast reasonable middle of the electorate, after his speech, is more with him than before. I would guess that tonight was the first time that they sat down and really listened to an entire speech of his in months. It was a helluva of a way to get reacquainted.
Sarah Palin's upload from her bunker this morning couldn't provide a starker example of the differences in the content of their characters.
For all her whining that it's actually her that has been wronged, for all Fox News' post-speech takeaway that the president's speech absolved them from any culpability in the dangerous turn in public political discourse, I can't help but hope that the deaths in Tucson will chasten them, just a little.
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They speak of Unity yet Division and
Divide seems the only Actions that's
on their minds, Disagreement and
Ridicule is the main words that exit
their mouths how many people know
what I'm talking about?
Congress, it's time you put in check the
Rude Undeserved Disrespect some of you
show to our President! He's truly a worthy
leader, plus his likability by the World, is high
on the Meter!
To those, in Congress who's earned our respect
you know who you are, thanks for being true to
your job!
Society as a whole is advised by those in power
to get along, yet although they make some of the
most important decisions for our lives, they simply
won't heed to any advice, even when they know
without a doubt, the other side is right!
How can Society ever get ahead with such a group
of knuckleheads? It's pass time grown women and
men stop the Bickering, unnecessary Partisanship
and Disagreeing simply, out of pure Meanness
What a poor example for our
youth
which like them you leave us all disappointed and
confused and asking the question what's the use?
the mere thought that our future is in your hands
is really hard to comprehend
So for the sake of Humanity, please remember, once
you're grown, you shouldn't act like a child or a bunch
of Clowns!
Because "We The People" could truly do without a
"Congress Gone Wild"
Poet: Tina Marie Clark
Copyright: 2011
I hope the deaths in Arz. teaches them that there are many more of us, lovers of the America, that is yet to come, than there are of them, who live in an America 'of days gone by.' The day has come, where hate and bigotry, has to be seen only in our rear view mirror.
But last night was an excellent example of why we were right to elect him.
Anyone could see that he meant them. Just sayin'.
-Increased fuel efficiency in cars, SUVs and trucks, trucks had been exempt
-Retrofitting buildings, tax breaks for reduced energy demand
-Health Insurance Reform
-Recovery Act
-Credit Card reform; bring transparency to derivative s market that
caused the financial crash
-Increase in minimum wage, first in 10 years
-Ban torture of captives
-End combat operations in Iraq
-Federal funding for medical research
-Student loans from government eliminatin g the middlemen who take
their chunk of the money from loans.
-More funding for Pell grants for education
-Recovery Act
-Formation of Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
-Small Business Assistance and tax credits
-Equal Pay for Women
-Wall St. reform
-Two women appointed to Supreme court
-SCHIP expansion
-Fully fund the Veterans Administra tion
-Restored critical protection s under the Endangered Species Act
-Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
-Repealed DADT
-New START treaty
Cynically viewed, he is also officially back in campaign mode. His tone over the next year will increasingly appeal to the reasonable center of the country. His purpose is, unfortunately, clear.
There is nothing "partisan" about recognizing that, as he launches his campaign for 2012, he is now tempering his words and going to do his best to seem very centrist in order to get back the voters in the middle who have begun to doubt him.